When The Game Of Chess Isn't Fun Anymore

When your very last piece of chess is moved and your gear to play chess is packed and ready for its demise or final use there's always something else to do that is as much fun and as far as the "incurable addiction to chess" is concerned the problem is solved! May I suggest another activity? One can always skateboard away from chess into the horizon down the roadway to a sunset in fact I already posted a roadway to a sunset picture I drew myself. As you know I've been seeing patterns in chess which helps me see patterns in graphic designs and patterns in art. Don't ask me to explain the logic all I know is that the search engines to this computer accept my input rather than spitting it out and asking for more pertinent information. I believe the patterns I see in chess also helps me develop patterns in design in my drawings or art work if I may and I do like to draw as much as I enjoy playing a good game of chess...gg equals an abbreviation for good game words that make most chess players smile and respect one another as opponents and players of this fascinating game when the games are pronounced as a good game. I always come equipped with a skateboard for those frustrating hair splitting days when you can do no right and everything goes wrong into the slumps and into the dumps the time can come to climb aboard my skateboard and just glide away into the sunset. Yes I guess my critics were correct about me I must be just plain nuts. I am however prepared now to get more serious about the game of chess. I thought I was already?

It Isn't The Agony This Time But The Ectasy

I finally won one I took the chance felt the lance charge ahead with a prance and speared my opponent right through his heart this was not a glance when my words rhyme hush your tongue it was not the lime I drank but the feeling I'm as good as I was when I was in my prime don't you say I've committed a crime I'm just leaping for joy and kicking my heels against any old wheel don't you see I've learn to play chess again the right way and made the seal life taught me again I could begin to feel when I can win the big one it is okay now and then like now to wear a silly grin. Losing the big one is only a way to set you up to win the big one long time no hear from Joel Osteen the minister like a coach to the way of living a life.

There It Goes

The winning streak is over. The losing streak is now. Good God. Yes I hate losing more than I like winning the famous words Joe Montana the famed quarter back told me over the air when I asked him his thoughts on winning and losing well he is the champion far greater a champion than any chess champion I'd say than one in chess. I did fail to mention that I was playing a rated game and so my concentration was focused on the incoming arrival to this house and before you know it my concentration was broken you would never know it but it was before I knew it the game was slipping way from me while I talked about a letter I was sending snail mail and how it may or may not be appropriate for the standards of protocol. Poof! My whole focus was blown thinking of the game of chess as something not to be taken serious was what blew it for me casually talking while my concentration needed to be on the game. Yes I am very upset and it shows time to wind down and manage my anger. Anger management they call it get it in check before it goes out of control and violence en....oh no I'm not going there. It is in check. Tell that to my cat when he bit me for fumbling around while he tried to eat and I was super slow trying to do something with his collar. I'll get over it in a hurry and recoup myself. Like I said earlier I will be back.

Loser?

For being worth as a value for this painting do I feel like what is worth the value of this image valued at one hundred million dollars give or take ten million? Yes my nerves are depleted and so is my energy a power nap is a must. This is how I feel after losing two games straight to the same player never mind the monetary value of the worth of this painting just look at the expression of this poor person a bit rather green in the face and her face all distorted. I look just like this after losing. Players don't like to grant interviews after a lost so this is my rare moment that I've offered to do so. I must admit this player was a solid player I met my match I lost it it went some where down the hatch okay sorry no rap here it only goes to show that rap and chess don't go together when it comes to championship level of chess count me out I'm not there will never be there. But my foot was at a discomfort not a good indication of being able to concentrate so excuses excuses I've nothing more to say but I will be back. I will be back. Someone please tell Dora Maar Au Chat she needs make up or something to fix her face she looks terrible.

Too Shaken For A Second Game

I knew my opponent not except he wanted to play chess with his rating at a 1231 and this was for a rated game. He was playing below par I think for a 1231 player I could be wrong how does one measure at what skill level we are playing at? I took the win nevertheless and ran with the win for I need to calm my nerves and get a hold of myself. The caffeine has compelled me into this third or fourth hour I don't know for sure which hour it is since I had two caffeine pills. Caffeine doesn't always work mind you it isn't the cure all drug to solve all problems there are other factors to juggle. The patterns in my last chess game among others looked as though they were taking the proper place but beware of false contentment. I sense my opponent moving along ever so slowly but yet with deliberation. My mind started for a minute give or take some but I knew my opponent was looking for what looked like a certain checkmate. My mind is just too fuzzy to keep on going at this blog I do need a pit stop. I cannot respond to any stimuli my energies have gone K put.

The Power Is In The Flower

If it rhymes then I am good to go. Digital cameras were distant objects to me at one time but now I'm hooked on picture taking in digital format. Pictures are a good diversion for the stress and yes the grind and depressions associated with the pitfalls of non performance in the game. Drawing pictures even though tracing is my way of learning how to draw gives me reason to continue playing online chess with the belief that the patterns seen in chess leads to the patterns seen in drawing pictures yes it isn't that complicated the engine searches respond each and every time I enter information in regards to this viewing and drawing by seeing patterns.

Chess And Harleys Are The Macho Things

This is a good shot of a Harley time to get my mind off the nerve shattering chess game I just had I lost a series of games but not a slump but not far from one the smart mouths when they get ahead want to become ringmasters of all the chess playing animals but I showed them those low down no life good for nothing low life idiots when I disabled the chat to silence them that gets them every time. Wow I just said a mouthful. But I am cranked up on caffeine and pumped up to function with prescription medicine to allow myself to move like a normal person. This Harley is a dandy however. I know how to ride one and have before but no I don't think I have a desire to mess with these machines anymore I consider myself a very lucky man still being alive not marked or injured by these roaring machines of thunder! The last game of chess my opponent must have gotten punch drunk like I was having handed over my bishop for free but then he did the worst move than that where he moved his queen into the line of fire by one of my pawns there went the game! I've yet to draw a picture of one of these marvelous dream machines. Chances are I will. Look for one coming up.

Drawing A Good Fire

Corvettes don't do this they don't have exhaust systems that burn this way this is an imaginary conception when any check engine light is on an engine may not be running correctly yes my nerves would run much higher in emotion had this scene really happen in a real car scene God forbid I don't need this kind of scene and who said this car is a Corvette it is just a hand drawn picture it could be an image of anything I would love to own a Corvette if I were a man of means in fact this car is dramatized when stories of the super cars are the economy cars NOT. They the super cars are dramatized when they burn fuel at an alarming rate not a fuel efficient car for the average motorist. My point is that the patterns of chess is like a picture intelligence in chess is marked by the best move against an opponent for me an act of drawing flames highly combustible for the first time is and was fun. What do you think dear reader does this look like fire? Mind you yes this blog is about mostly chess but this break from the high intense drama of chess is doing me a world of good. And oh boy was I nervous when my car roared down the road and a motorist gone postal trained his ....no I don't think I'm going there I'll leave the war stories to Norman Mailer in his epic book The Naked And The Dead.

It Is The Exhibition Game Today

Moving into a higher rated status puts me with the higher rated players who play it harder for me and thus I'm having a harder time with winning more than I lose. Another indication that my coordination or alertness if off is when I am making more typing errors or just plain struggling with the keyboard. The transference to the chess game therefore shows. This would be a good indicator not to play rated games any more than I should get behind the wheel of a car when drinking alcohol I do know better and that for me isn't even an issue as I know more than better. I'm in need of a power nap most certainly. I've been away the past week or so(notice how other similar blogs have the same approach as this one when it comes to presiding over a blog and the attention it pays to the audience?) You can read me at It Never Takes A Genius another blog on drawing and tracing pictures to designing pictures as well as my mention to the famed artist Pablo Picasso one of the great artist I've become more familiar with than say....others. Not only do I need a power nap badly but I am ready for some eggs. Look no pictures today my how dull Jack has no pictures . If I were to show a picture of David Copperfield the magician whose name I use when I abandoned a chess game when there is no hope to win

Playing The More Difficult Players

Chess is like a spoken language there are good players just as there are good speakers in particular languages. The more skilled a player is the better his celebrity status in that field that game he is in the languages a skilled speaker is like a celebrated talk show host or actor. Am I exaggerating? I can only report my experiences to my critics such experiences are not inspirational but what can I say? Nevertheless the other day I played one of the higher rated chess players in a non competitive exhibition ....no....wait....it was for a rated game he took over for a much lower rated player so I figure okay fine I'll meet this guy head on what the heck it is just a game this isn't like I'm meeting a Mack truck head on on the free way. I can't make this comparison as there isn't any? Sorry I just did. Yes I am answering my own questions one that anyone might ask me. Believe it or not getting back to the topic of this entry for today this 1600 plus player I was prepared for I didn't beat him in a sound way but I stole his human side of his self my human side reached for his quest for his psyche that no chess playing machine could produce to date; I made him laugh so hard when I dug in the trenches despite his overwhelming skill or superiority whatever.....and my words came through a comic relief to the routine I will cut your throat before you can but my throat kind of thing. Another way to win is to make your opponent collapse in laughter rolling on the floor(ROFL). He just might award you the game for showmanship or for showing a good show. Women can do it. Bobby Fischer despised women who competed in chess. How far women will take the skill level of chess relative to males I haven't a clue. Stay tuned. Make no doubt about it my ratings for today's entry would have been higher had I posted a good picture illustrating my words. I'm working on it and I do think I am getting better at it. No bragging here just the facts madam.

The Luxury Of Not Being Read

The widely read writer you would surmise is a celebrity therefore would not you say they have whatever privacy invaded by prying eyes both friends and enemies? Addressing large numbers of people by hobby is nothing new to me but those emails and yes even when I tried the chat rooms vicious attacks are just as brutal as being out on the streets dealing with the thugs and what not. The more I maintain this blog and others the more exposure to the world of blogging of others which don't get me wrong but relating to them becomes natural and a reader of others I become gone in my life is the daily newspaper and in is the Internet of other people's thoughts and ideals not all of which are professional writers including myself. Some blog writers appear to be criticize beyond belief. Dealing one on one in the language of chess is as brutal when losing and I will always continue to lose games as long as I play. So then the question is why do I continue to do it? The phenomenon of the games player may never be answered. It just is. We do know at least I do that Ann Frank author of Diary Of Ann Frank didn't have anyone much if at all reading her diary/journal. I think I will google her asking what her viewership was.

The Principles Of Magnus

It isn't complicated at least his attitude. Magnus plays when he wants to says he is lazy but there must a great deal of talent in that player to play when he wants. I just got off playing a non rated game sometimes you never know the game can go better than you expected one never really knows all the time. Then of course it can go worst I didn't throw that game on purpose but thought I could just put that game in automatic but like those automatic machine guns in the beginning of the Vietnam War it jammed. Automation didn't work for me. Those sleeping pills or one half of a pill takes me a long time to recover insomnia or no insomnia. Evidently I still haven't recovered. At least I didn't go into these games half cocked today like I've done so many times in the past what with the rated games plunging my ratings down to the gutter. But I must remember according to the master mind of this blog chess is not a measurement of your self worth. It is not a life or death situation and this isn't a Vietnam War I am engaged in. Chess Tiger the second one to comment on this blog sees chess as his entire life he is more serious about the game yet he must be of the right stuff and I mean it as a compliment. He can be googled.

The Best Note

The day wears on I've only played one online game I've been too busy looking at the best pictures with which to draw but it was for a rated game I figure if I'm not alert at this time of day I never will for the rest of the day. Bicycling around the circle where I live was a struggle enough and needed time to recover despite a job that nagged me in my face demanding attention as small as it was. To make a long story short I was able to win this one the mode was there. I could not believe I was in a good lead I took my time expecting my opponent to perhaps make one of those trash talking and distracting diversions but I was clear sailing despite the fact it appeared he might be turning it around with only a bishop as a backup invading my turf as my queen harassed his King on his turf. I took advantage of buzzing his king midway plus through the game assassinating his rooks thus giving me an edge in the final closing game. I didn't jump to play this opponent being his ratings was close to my maybe more or higher than my ratings I balked hesitating in playing him or her wanting a chance a good chance this time in winning. When I finished the game my nerves were a bit worn there wasn't enough nerve to go a second game I took the win and ran with what little nerve I had left.

Golden Tipped Swan In A Green Pond

This picture or drawing has me in a relaxing mood far away from the nerves it takes to jump into an online chess game and face my sometimes relentless opponents with an attitude and why is this? I haven't played any chess yet today that is why. All I can see is this swan enjoying the peace. The trauma of seeing his entire family ravaged by the local fox is far out in the distance with the support of his medical plan. Tranquility is the sight of a golden tipped swan swimming in a green pond. How many words can a picture be worth I'd say quite a few words my words cannot describe what this picture says.

Magnus Carlsen The Gifted

There is a world of difference between Magnus the champion at times not number one depending on which source you read into nevertheless he wins at the professional level the master mind behind this blog of mine did in fact advise with all due humanitarian judging to look at chess in a more practical way rather than feel everyone must seek the lime light because it isn't going to happen. Yes I did lose three games and my energies are depleted I must recoup my resources to live to play another day a day in the life of a recreational chess addict. It is the agony of losing three straight games of chess rated games mind you but as a fallen chess player as of this very instance I hand over my bloody sword to tell my comrades to go forth and pick up where I have failed. Yes Bobby Fischer was right when he said life is a chessboard. Things don't always go your way and you have to try to the best of your abilities to right the wrong even now when I'm down there is always life beyond defeat it is never ending. Failure does not last forever. Life always goes on death is not permanent.

I'm looking at the blogs of the more competitive chess players and they are definitely more serious chess players and chess blogger types than I. The problem is that are in a elite world of their own but than goodness for Dick Cavett and other talk show hosts who can convey the concepts of chess to the general public and what the game of chess signifies. The bigger game as you know is tennis far overshadowing chess in the United States I met him also on the air when he was a guest speaker and I a news talk show caller. The principles of tennis also applies to chess and what John McEnroe told me a much bigger celebrity star than Bobby Fischer in my opinion is that if the game isn't fun then don't play it anymore. But as I have been maintaining the patterns of chess seen by experienced chess players can be transferred to the patterns of art and the Internet has everything to do with it. This is the new world whether you like it or not. I stole that line from our San Francisco mayor....sorry.

Playing Chess The Magnus Carlsen Way

All the serious chess players have heard of Magnus Carlsen. He's the one and only ranked second player in the world once ranked number one. But us the senior chess players we all hear of Bobby Fischer the legend. If I were a serious player I'd be spending more time at it like playing all the time from age five or six. Nevertheless this morning I just felt like playing a game this 1368 rated player and I went at it with him I just was ready to take on anyone not afraid to play anyone no matter what his ratings was so long as he or she wasn't a chess playing machine I get so bored playing those things. So thinking I don't have to be disciplined and regimented to force myself to play chess I just did so the Magnus way and play chess because I felt like it despite the discomfort in my leg and no caffeine yet to start the day. I prefer to do it without caffeine if I can but what I want and what I get are two different things. Am I coming across? Probably not since I haven't had my caffeine but a power nap would explain my lack of endurance to have gone a second game. I'm tired! By the way I beat this opponent clean none of made any errors either that is how tough online chess is. The nerves and the excitement is all part of the game otherwise I'd be a total recluse and just bounce a ball against a wall and do nothing else. Playing new people from all over the world isn't being reclusive. Write that down. I did.

Grin When You Lose And Smile No Ratings.

Playing chess when drowsy and dosing off helps to lose; the remedy is don't play and if you do see to it that the game isn't for ratings it is your choice. Smiles are guaranteed when you lose but that you forgot and the game was clicked on for the controls as being an exhibition game win or lose no points after the game will be assigned. May the Bird Of Paradise be there for you like a rose like the words of this poem it will tell it does know the very essence of this poem's prose

A first thing to do and that is post this picture of a sunset I drew. No one but I drew this picture; this is the charm of drawing pictures the picture becomes valued at a higher value than does a photograph of this picture. Why? That's an excellent question don't mind if I say so myself I read your mind and give to you approval your thought and question is an excellent one. What you say have I gone mad am I writing to myself and answering my very own questions? I'll address that issue at another time. But look at the fire in the surrounding sun I've always wanted to draw a picture of the earth and the fire and the rain. Well you can see the fire and the earth. The rain is on hold. I've got a rain check! All you K-Mart shoppers you know what I'm talking about.

The Master Mind Behind This Blog

It is a rather smart man who prompted me to write this blog of my own choosing. He has read some of this but urges that chess should be for recreational purposes after all very few can money off this game. This master mind is a career counselor. All I know is that I'm going where ever I happen to wind up(Then Came Bronson was a TV series about a wanderer who lived life as it revolved around his life). Reading my adventures at online chess you would think it is a life or death situation as I get more frayed nerves and battle experiences mentally then those returning Vietnam veterans from a real war. But come on please I know all this is just a game contrary to what Chess tiger my first commenter to this blog as chess is everything to him is it not? Read his comments again. I will.

I just did beat a 1275 in an exhibition game after promptly being beaten by the same or similar rated player in a previous game but I turned it into a fun and games kind of thing. You won't catch me slicing my wrists on account of a game of chess with little toy model pieces or two dimensional icons or whatever on a board. No sir or no madam. But I shall take it to heart what my master mind of this blog suggests I think this adviser has a good mind and concrete messages to spread.

A Time To Break From Chess and Look At Art

Take a look at the Dora Maar Au Chat if you have kept up on this blog or googled this shall I call a masterpiece of Pablo Picasso you can see the influence of that picture which is one of his girlfriends to the picture to your left looking right at you. This picture is entitled The Mask Of Gidget which is my wife. She shall be complimented that I named my masterpiece after her. The price of this drawing and by the way I just purchase material for painting oil on canvas much like Pablo Picasso used is not listed it cannot be bought any more than the Mona Lisa is for sale for this drawing of mine and my name is Robert H (pen name). This drawing is priceless. No one can offer any amount for this priceless picture not the most famous art work which is the Mona Lisa. But in my opinion it looks much better than the Mona Lisa or anything painted by Pablo Picasso. This was not traced but this picture is an original drawn by this author of this blog so help me God sworn before you the reader and before God the creator of all the universe. You might detect a wry sense of humor here. This is precisely what I'm doing. I confess. Am I delusional? I've been told by a few relatives that I'm mad....that I need .....well I need not even go there I can help myself after all this is what fun is all about. Let me say there are some people who cannot be tolerated and they need to be restrained, fined, imprisoned and banned outright for their behavior and their actions so repugnant and so offbeat that the good of the common citizen need be protected. Can we do this to Howard Stern? Give us liberty that there are some of us that can appreciate Howard Stern for what he is and that a few certain segments of the population seek to dictate that this man cannot exercise his freedoms of expression. And I heard he is getting professional help but should we pity him? He always made me laugh in my opinion he made all the sense in the world but not to his critics. He is extremely obnoxious to his many critics but not to millions of others such as myself. Let him talk and I shall do my walk.